Search found 1505 matches

by Miami Vice
Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:04 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Music Thread
Replies: 8520
Views: 803032

Music Thread

ive always had Gibsons and Epiphones, so any wider neck is going to be an adjustment. In general I dont like the Ibanez body shapes and colors as much (though that one looks way nicer in person - very deep finish) but I think if I'm going to try getting my scales faster I might as well do it on the ...
by Miami Vice
Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:21 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Music Thread
Replies: 8520
Views: 803032

Music Thread

i think it might be new guitar day. depends on how quickly i get out of work and what i find. i have a red les paul studio. id really like something with a floyd rose tremolo (never had one). i have a spare set of Zakk Wylde EMGs to toss in it. Leading contenders: https://dk1xgl0d43mu1.cloudfront.ne...
by Miami Vice
Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:17 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Music Thread
Replies: 8520
Views: 803032

Music Thread

i wanted to buy a bass guitar to record some stuff with it. ive been able to recruit my wife to start learning it, which has been awesome. shes picking it up decently well and its really been fun to have someone to play with.
by Miami Vice
Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Star Wars discussion (SPOILERS INCLUDED)
Replies: 8660
Views: 668329

Star Wars discussion (SPOILERS INCLUDED)

Red Letter Media did a great video spoofing both click bait list videos and weirdos who write Wookiepedia articles. Top 10 Things you didn't know about Darth Vader's Suit or something like that
by Miami Vice
Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:55 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

and I think Rango's problem too is that they have only one auditorium. Disney wants as many showings per day as possible, so for every auditorium a theater commits they want exclusivity in it for a certain amount of time, even the "normal" ones. Thats why so many small independent theaters are reall...
by Miami Vice
Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

Back to the Future isn't really competing for screens right now. If someone wants to go to Universal or whoever is charge of distributing/licensing it to theaters they will probably take anything they can get. a company like Disney wants to get their marque films in all the "high end" auditoriums (I...
by Miami Vice
Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:04 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

Rangos is stuck because of the rules that (mostly Disney) is forcing on theaters. April/May is the main school field trip season. They definitely could and want to show Infinity War, but Disney won't let them show any other movies in that auditorium for something like 6 weeks. They can't show a scie...
by Miami Vice
Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:23 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

my wife liked it more than Prometheus, FWIW
by Miami Vice
Mon Mar 05, 2018 9:27 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

I didnt see any of the nominees for animated short this year. I know Glenn Keane is kind of a modern animation legend, old enough to be around at the tail of Disney's 9 Old Men's careers, but young enough that he was an important part of the 90s Renaissance. He was the lead animator on Ariel and als...
by Miami Vice
Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: home theater, cord cutting, video streaming, a/v tech, and more!
Replies: 6089
Views: 531427

home theater, cord cutting, video streaming, a/v tech, and more!

Is this the thing that uses personal routers? Doesn't that seem... icky to anyone else?
a good reason NOT to use a cable company provided modem/router
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:20 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Restaurant Recommendations
Replies: 2394
Views: 193543

Restaurant Recommendations

I really liked what I ate there but I agree, far too expensive. The tacos I guess were ok priced, at least they were large. The guac came to something like $16
by Miami Vice
Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Restaurant Recommendations
Replies: 2394
Views: 193543

Restaurant Recommendations

The Primantis on Steubenville Pike has some of the best pizza I know of in the city. They're the only one of the franchise locations that has whatever kind of pizza oven it is - the rest have something different. The crust and the sauce are both great, not to mention the price. Tuesday and Thursday ...
by Miami Vice
Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:46 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Restaurant Recommendations
Replies: 2394
Views: 193543

Restaurant Recommendations

I generally don't go to Burgatory because their drink prices are outrageous.
I'm exactly the same. I won't order anything if a Yeungling bottle is $5+, I'll just get water. Their drafts all seem to be at least $1.50-$2 higher than anywhere else.
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 20, 2018 9:25 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Movie Thread
Replies: 31018
Views: 2108546

Movie Thread

within the last year or two, I've become more and more of a Marvel movie fan, but I didn't quite follow the significance of the last post credit scene in Black Panther (not the one poking Trumps build walls), but the last one. Any help? at the end of civil war t'challa takes bucky back to wakanda t...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:56 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: home theater, cord cutting, video streaming, a/v tech, and more!
Replies: 6089
Views: 531427

home theater, cord cutting, video streaming, a/v tech, and more!

i can only fathom how much that would cost. having two would sure be great for parity and speed.
by Miami Vice
Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:36 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread
Replies: 7121
Views: 460663

Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread

- From your description it seems that PBs strive not to force their clients to close shorts, so the short-sale deals have an indefinite maturity. (A) Are there deals that explicitly state maturity - e.g. the client borrows the stocks for precisely X months? Right. From a purely business perspective...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:29 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread
Replies: 7121
Views: 460663

Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread

What do I think of it? My gut says two things. One is that people have gotten a little overzealous and excited over the past month, pushing stocks maybe a bit too high. The sell off started last week when asset managers, with prospectus limits on equity vs fixed income concentration, had to begin re...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 06, 2018 4:25 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread
Replies: 7121
Views: 460663

Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread

I'd also like to add that I watched the first two season of the TV show Billions, and Season 1 Episode 4 was about lending's role and effect on hedge funds (sort of). That's one with the Metallica concert. The hedge fund in the show has a short position in a stock. To short it they would have had to...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:59 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread
Replies: 7121
Views: 460663

Investing, Stock Market and Retirement Planning Thread

Cross post from current events Yeah, I was reading about that inverse VIX etf last night. No thanks. @miami vice. Do yinz ever dabble in such things? Yes, to the extent that one of the large institutions who participates in a securities lending program holds it. Anything with a ton of volatility is ...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Politics And Current Events
Replies: 231708
Views: 12855238

Politics And Current Events

Yeah, I was reading about that inverse VIX etf last night. No thanks. @miami vice. Do yinz ever dabble in such things? Yes, to the extent that one of the large institutions who participates in a securities lending program holds it. Anything with a ton of volatility is going to create some degree of...
by Miami Vice
Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:59 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Restaurant Recommendations
Replies: 2394
Views: 193543

Restaurant Recommendations

we agree its too much of a rip off = prix fixe menus and limited options. plus theyre trying to turn the table as fast as humanly possible.

im making a small rib roast with shrimp bearnaise sauce
by Miami Vice
Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:10 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: ITT, name every concert you've ever seen
Replies: 373
Views: 49849

ITT, name every concert you've ever seen

I saw so many concerts in my late teens and early 20s (Laga/Smalls/the various incarnations of Metropol/Rosebud), so I'll just list a few notable ones: -Brand New, Finch & the Starting Line at The Upstage -Fall Out Boy, Mest, Matchbook Romance at Laga -Metallica, Jerry Cantrell, Days of the New at S...
by Miami Vice
Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:50 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Star Wars discussion (SPOILERS INCLUDED)
Replies: 8660
Views: 668329

Star Wars discussion (SPOILERS INCLUDED)

If I was running the show I'd move it to the first week of December. I don't know what the ramifications of doing that to this movie would look like. There is more product tie in with Star Wars than anything else. I'm sure there are car ads ready to go, cereal boxes being printed, Doritos end caps,...
by Miami Vice
Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:38 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gardening/Maintenance Thread
Replies: 2006
Views: 195751

Gardening/Maintenance Thread

love my aerogarden. its actually difficult to keep up with. i am like the santa of herbs. just dishing em out all over the place
any you've found work particularly well/not well? i use thyme and rosemary more than anything else. id like to try mexican oregano and cilantro
by Miami Vice
Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:21 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gardening/Maintenance Thread
Replies: 2006
Views: 195751

Gardening/Maintenance Thread

high marks from us on the Aerogarden system. I got my wife one for Christmas and we already have a plentiful supply of dill, thyme, and basil. The mint is growing more slowly, and the parsley didnt grow at all.

We just this past week added lavender and rosemary, and already have a lavender sprout.